With all apologies to the late great Fred Rogers.
Elon Musk has paired up with Lennar, the nation’s second-largest home builder, to build a subdivision outside Austin, Texas, where Musk recently relocated some of his companies’ facilities. As Alissa Walker writes in Curbed, “The proposal is called Project Amazing, because — like all of Musk’s endeavors — it begins with a stupid joke.”
Details on the development—also like many of Musk’s endeavors—remain murky at this stage. As Walker points out, “Musk has built quite a bit of housing on the actual Boring Company campus, where rows of manufactured housing installed on the property as well as common areas including a playground are easily observable from the road.”
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Las Vegas Doubles Down on Elon Musk and the Boring Co.
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California Bill Aims to Boost TOD
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According to one local writer, the city’s low rate of car ownership should encourage officials to support public transit and reduce parking minimums.
California Lawmakers Move to Protect Waterways
Anticipating that the Trump EPA will reinstate a 2017 policy that excluded seasonal wetlands and waterways from environmental protections.
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